Professional Victims: Anita Sarkeesian, Zoe Quinn, et al.

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If child porn is involved it was most likely the FBI.

I was under the impression that standard policy was to issue an ambiguous statement whenever there was public interest in a case rather than answering all the questions of any randomer who calls up.

The thing is, she has chosen to take a stand/make public commentary, etc etc etc- basically do frequent confrontation. It's her thing. If you do this, you are subjecting yourself to criticism and scrutiny. That's just how it goes. [Note I say "criticism and scrutiny", not harrassment.]



It may be that everything the ex posted was 100% true... but it may not. It's entirely possible he is/was the "sociopath". Or a little of column a and a little of column b. There's not a good way to tell. So subjecting her to harrassment, etc because her ex decided to do all this stuff- which, really, even if they did have a truly awful relationship and she did cheat on him [...five times? really?], posting nudes pictures of some one on the internet, and all of the other things going with it isn't justified. I am also way more convinced that Quinn has suffered harrassment, and of a greater threat, than Sarkeesian. I will admit to a certain amount of ignorance [I have not been following situation closely]. It's hard to tag her as a professional victim either, as neither her blog nor her raising site are proliferated with "give me sympathy in the form of money" type plees. She says a couple things on her blog about stuff going on- and pretty recently on her blog she flipped out, but I am pretty sure she didn't say "so give me money because obviously that will help this situation". She also makes no reference to her personal issues on pateron.

Also Depression Quest is pretty great. But that's really neither here nor there- when it comes right down to it, it's probably difficult to actually tag Quinn for being exactly what her ex says she is, and him 100% innocent. Even if that was the case, what she is claiming is probably happening to a large degree, it doesn't really look like she is trying to directly play it for more money [though when you have support it is going to happen], and no one deserves that crap. End of.

Professional victim stuff is a load of crap though and I agree that when you enter a field/demographic because you want to promote YOUR platform, and not because you are interested in the field [as seems to be the case with Sarkeesian], you are poking the bears. It also really cheapens your cause and it's not wonder people don't want to listen, and are at the ready to turn against you. if you don't actually care, why should they?

[Kind of like "Zzzzz.... Sorry you were talking about gamers..."

It's got a name! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_blaming

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Anita%27s_Irony


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https://twitter.com/radicalbytes Jonathan McIntosh

Jonathon McIntosh is a self hating weirdo who sockpuppets his girlfriend to push his ideology because in his world straight White men's opinions shouldn't be heard. I've literally seen this dude tweet that he thinks there is "too much emphasis on video games being fun". SJW's war on video games is no different than Jack Thompson's war on video games. Both are under the delusion that video games somehow cause bad behavior in real life, Thompson focusing on violence and SJW's on sexism/racism/whatever. McIntosh is a self admitted propagandist and proudly highlights being called that, his whole schtick is trying to inject his ideology into pop culture. Knowing that about him, now you should know why he thinks games "shouldn't be fun".

I remember thunderf00t as the ass hole who endangered Natalie Reed, a trans woman activist who posts under an assumed name for privacy and security, by hacking into FreeThoughtBlogs website, after he had his credentials taken away, and trying to reveal as much private information as possible.

I liked his videos against creationism, but God damn, he's a total f**ktard outside of that.

Alright well harassment/death threats and what not is never really a good thing that is for sure. However I have seen video game characters that are female and don't quite fit your description, also if it is an anime game it would make sense that the characters including females look like anime characters. I have never been bothered by the look of characters on video games...Also these women at gaming conventions wearing little clothing, is this forced? Or could it be that is the way they choose to dress? Not to say sexism never comes up amoung gamers or just people who play game sometimes even...but should we start passing laws to dictate how females in a video game have to look? If someone is unsatisfied with how female video game characters look, why don't they design their own game?

Either way harrassment and threats is no way to deal with someone pointing out things they don't like in video games or whatever this chick did...but still not sure I'd agree with the initial points that the harrassment came prior to. Also does it really matter what gender people who play video games are....its not a competition I mean if females have the goal of being half the video game market just so they can say they are, seems a little pointless if more females get into it cool, if not its not exactly sexism if there aren't as many female video gamers than males.

Well then why is it called feminism? That term in itself certainly seems to cater to females specifically...maybe evolving it to a term that does not specify females. Now back in the day when women could not vote, really had no rights that term does make sense as it was needed for women to gain rights...now that we have gained our equal rights continuing the term feminism to describe a goal of bringing men and woman together as people seems a little unusual...there are probably better terms for that goal.